This morning we screened OP's new Ultimate Sessions DVD, a compilation of ground-breaking footage from many of the best surf movies ever made, including Cosmic Children, Morning of the Earth, Free Ride and Jack Johnson's September Sessions.
A pair of sequences really stand out in Ultimate Sessions, the first involving Hawaiian Dane Kealoha at Supertubes in 1986, from Scott Dittrich's Amazing Surf Stories. Supertubes is a semi-secret spot with a location that's generally referred to as "somewhere in north Los Angeles County." Here's the truth: it's not in L.A. County, but rather in southern Ventura County. That's as much as needs to be given away; if you go looking for this spot and don't know when to look for it, chances are you'll never see it break.
The other session of particular interest involves Tom Curren and his first visit to Jeffrey's Bay in South Africa in 1992, from Sonny Miller's Searching for Curren. It's been widely reported that Curren's first waves at J-Bay were among the best ever ridden at the spot to that point in time, but I'm here to tell you that Shaun Tomson flat-out surfed the place better than Curren did around the same time, as documented by Bruce Brown in Endless Summer II.
For anyone who really appreciates great surf films, Ultimate Sessions is a must-have. Buy it now at SurfVideo.com.
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